Siemens SENTRON 7KT PAC1260 Data Manager Web Interface unverified password change

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Siemens SENTRON 7KT PAC1260 Data Manager. This affects an unknown part of the component Web Interface. This manipulation causes unverified password change. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-41796. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Siemens SENTRON 7KT PAC1260 Data Manager (the affected version is unknown). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component Web Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unverified password change vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-620. When setting a new password for a user, the product does not require knowledge of the original password, or using another form of authentication. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability has been identified in SENTRON 7KT PAC1260 Data Manager (All versions). The web interface of affected devices allows to change the login password without knowing the current password. In combination with a prepared CSRF attack (CVE-2024-41795) an unauthenticated attacker could be able to set the password to an attacker-controlled value.

It is possible to read the advisory at cert-portal.siemens.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-41796 since 07/22/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/08/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1552 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Siemens

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• SENTRON 7KT PAC1260 Data Manager

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.siemens.com/

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